Former Oklahoma basketball player Tae Davis plans to enter transfer portal, per report
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Former Oklahoma basketball star Tae Davis is set to enter the transfer portal, his agency told On3 on Friday morning.
Agent Ron Shade of Octagon informed On3 that the 6-foot-9 senior forward will be seeking another place to play as he explores a fifth season of eligibility at the college level. Davis is a versatile weapon who Oklahoma will miss, as he averaged 13.0 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game last season.
But Davis’s situation is not so simple when it comes to entering the portal for next season. According to a report by Brody Lusk, who covers Oklahoma basketball for 247Sports, Davis can’t legally enter the transfer portal because the window is closed.
Davis could take matters into his own hands and fight it by filing a lawsuit to still be able to enter the portal. But according to Lusk, Davis is “not currently listed as a plaintiff in any of the pending eligibility lawsuits.”
Friday’s On3 report specifies that Davis’s plans to enter the portal are based on a recent court ruling that is allowing another year of eligibility for all Class of 2022 athletes who have finished 4 years of eligibility. Based on that ruling, Davis would be able to seek another destination for a fifth season of college basketball in 2026-27.
Davis has already had a whirlwind college career, spending 1 season at Seton Hall, 2 seasons at Notre Dame and then last season at Oklahoma. He signed with Seton Hall out of high school, but he now appears to be in a battle to gain that fifth season of eligibility based on the transfer portal window being closed.
A sharpshooter for OU last season, Davis shot exactly 50% from the field for the Sooners with a 71% clip from the free throw line.
Oklahoma fell short of making the NCAA Tournament this past season, settling for a berth in the College Basketball Crown tournament. The Sooners will try to get back to the Big Dance next season, and here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying about the best odds to make it all the way to the Final Four next April:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
